Call it fizzling rivalry
An employee at Coca-Cola and two accomplices were arrested for trying to pass trade secrets, including a sample of a new drink, to arch-rival PepsiCo (which tipped Coca-Cola off about the theft).
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So which side do you belong to?
For decades, life in the small town of Herzogenaurach in Hamburg has been defined by two sportswear brand – Adidas and Puma – where the shoes you wear are a statement of which side you belong to. Some places were thus a no-go for people with the “wrong” shoes. The line is drawn so clearly… Read More »
Can’t Lego of money
It’s a pity that while some companies like Otto Group realise the beauty of not going public, other companies like Lego, which is privately held and still majority-controlled by its founder’s heirs, decide to follow the money trail with greater fervour than ever. As reported in “Rebuilding Lego” (FORTUNE, June 12, 2006), Lego’s new CEO… Read More »
Scoble circumstances
Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s alpha blogger, is leaving the software giant for startup PodTech.net. In an interview with Microsoft Watch, Scoble said this about his soon-to-be former employer: “Another surprise? That every bad decision that I thought was bad had a logical explanation behind it. I didn’t always agree with the decisions, but there was always… Read More »
Don’t go public
I read in “Otto The Modest” (BusinessWeek, June 5, 2006) that Michael Otto, CEO of German retailer Otto Group, ‘refuses to take his company public partly because he thinks the market encourages shortsighted management.“We don’t have to come up with a good story every quarter for the investors and the press,” Otto said in an… Read More »
Can Dell continue to deliver?
Two years ago, when Dell revealed its enterprise strategy, I mentioned that the company will drive industry standards even if such standards happen to be proprietary, presumably because of its customer focus. Hell, I was wrong. Dell’s recent announcement that it will start shipping AMD-based servers was not about putting customers first. If the company… Read More »